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[X-posted & FUT .castle] "Richard Noeckel" <Shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gz401w.CG@lugnet.com... (...) Is it true that the original Yellow Castle was so appealing? This seems to be the concensus at LUGnet, but I remember (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Different timing in Europe and the U.S. In the U.S., Castle was introduced first in pictures in the 6000 Idea Book in 1979. All the kids I knew stared at the Castle pictures long after we had become familiar with our Space sets and so on. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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It seemed to me that the Yellow Castle came out a few years after the first Classic Space. I was very much into Classic Space when I was a kid, though I did look longingly at the new Castle sets when they came out. For me there are two reasons that (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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"Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> wrote in message news:Gz5rII.Hpo@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks, this fully explains my confusion. (On hindsight I could have found out myself had I compared US catalogs over this period with European ones.) (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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"Bruce Hietbrink" <bnh@chem.ucla.edu> wrote in message news:Gz68os.7zK@lugnet.com... (...) Apparently the Yellow Castle was released in different years in the US and Europe. The timeline would be something like: '78 YC introduced in Europe. '79 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hello! (...) I've got very vague memorizations of the Yellow Castle. When it was initially released in 1978 I was just one year old. However, it was in catalogue until 1983 and probably in many stores still available one or two years later. But (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Johannes, "Johannes Koehler" <chutspe@nexgo.de> wrote in message news:Gz7zxF.sC@lugnet.com... (...) That's also my feeling. I don't hate the Yellow Castle, I think it's a nice model, but not to the extent that I'm stunned by the design. Unlike (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.castle)
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